Comments on: Can we tax our way out of the plastic pollution crisis?https://www.euractiv.com/section/circular-economy/opinion/can-we-tax-our-way-out-of-the-plastic-pollution-crisis/
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]]>By: Mike Parrhttps://www.euractiv.com/section/circular-economy/opinion/can-we-tax-our-way-out-of-the-plastic-pollution-crisis/#comment-335709
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:24:03 +0000https://www.euractiv.com/?post_type=news&p=1267618#comment-335709You do not need to go the tax route. The problem is (partly) a throw-away culture. Cycling through the countryside I see vast amounts of plastic – chucked out of car windows. At the sea side there is quite a bit of plastic waste that clearly comes from fishing nets.

Deposit scheme. Revenue neutral & penalises the stupid and lazy. A plastic bottle of xyz – costs Euro2 – deposit – Euro1 – when returned to the supermarket (like we do with glass bottles). Fishing nets: cost? Euro5000 (I’m guessing). Deposit – Euro3000 with deductions for weight loss when net is recycled back due to age etc. And so on and so forth.

The benefit is that the stupid would still chuck some stuff of value away – this would provide opportunities to those with the time (on their hands) or the inclination to make easy money.

& yes – it would require supermarkets to pull their fingers out and perhaps focus a bit more on packaging etc.